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Hugging It Out

with Teresa Wynn Roseborough

The self-described Brown v. Board of Education baby
embraces The Home Depot

BY CANDICE DYER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY STAN KAADY

LONG BEFORE WOMEN IN POWERSUITS DEBATED THE
“Lean In” approach, Teresa Wynn Roseborough was taking
that posture a degree or two further. “I’m a hugger,” she says,
before enthusiastically embracing every new acquaintance
like long-lost family in her office at The Home Depot Inc.

headquarters in Atlanta.

“She’s nothing if not consistent,” says Bruce Yannett ofDebevoise & Plimpton in New York. “She hugs guys as well aswomen, in almost every setting and context. The first time shehugged me, it was a little startling in that sort of buttoned-down business environment, but then you quickly realize howcompletely genuine she is. Her personal warmth is not someact; it’s simply who she is.”Some encounters, though, call for stricter social boundaries—such as meetings with U.S. presidents and first families. “I gowith the friendly handshake with them,” Roseborough says. “Idon’t think the Secret Service likes huggers.”